Granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, Aurelia Thierree is an internationally acclaimed performing artist.

Interview with AURELIA THIERREE:

Your childhood ambition:

I wanted to be a farmer who would not kill her animals. Or a “snow drop”—it broke my heart that it would only live for a day, piercing through the cold.

Something you treasure:

An alarm clock (I hate alarm clocks) but this one wakes you up with birds chirping and a cloud softly shining.

Your worst habit:

Procrastination. Worse: a feeling of guilt about it. Yet, I have achieved a lot of important things while procrastinating.

The aspect of your work that’s most important to you:

Its elusiveness. The fact that it will not tolerate pretension. That it keeps me questioning, rethinking, wondering, and then surrendering.

Your first job:

As an independent being? On a night shoot, as a teenager, I was to bring a glass of champagne to a grand old actor, in between each and every take so much so that as the night advanced, he would grin like a little kid as soon as he would hear “cut”. And sing a song “my glass of champ, my glass of champ”, and sometimes do a little dance when he would see me arriving.

Someone whose work you highly recommend:

His.

 

See more of Aurelia’s work here.